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Monday, September 25, 2017

Joy's Dress Day Airs Tonight

The third episode in the new season of Counting On airs tonight on TLC (summary below). I (Ellie) am especially looking forward to this show because I was able to join the Duggars for Joy-Anna Duggar's dress fitting at Renee's Bridal in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Watching from behind the scenes was a blast, and just a short while later, I was also invited to Kendra Caldwell's dress fitting.

Following the episode, we will be posting exclusive photos from the fitting!

Monday, September 25, 20179pm: Finding Joy's Dress (NEW)Joy travels to
Kentucky to find her perfect wedding dress, but with so many options,
the overwhelmed bride has to make some big decisions. Joy and Austin
enjoy bonding time with their future fathers-in-law, and Israel
celebrates his 2nd birthday.

Photo courtesy DCL/TLC; click here to see more snapshots from the dress fitting

I have a feeling she didn't really know what she wanted considering how indecisive she is.I also think she would've looked better with an updo like Jinger.Kendra looked great on her wedding day. Loved her dress.

I bet Joy is embarrassed now watching these wedding planning episodes back. Her behavior was so pouty, rude and immature. Not gracious to all of the people helping her. Certainly not mature enough for a woman about to be married.

This is cyberbullying - trying to make Joy's special outing less enjoyable by taunting her over a dress her mother wore 8 years ago. As I recall, Michelle and her groom were happy with the dress. It's possible to publish various points of view without giving a platform to cyberbullies.

Anon @ 4:32 I don't see how the original comment is going to make Joys special outing less enjoyable as it happened months ago, the wedding is over and Joy is pregnant. Also Joy looked she wanted to be anywhere else other than trying on dresses so I don't think she would have minded the remark which was funny and not cyber bullying imo because it in no way attacked Joy.

I thought that was a clever referral to the silly episode where Michelle had to pick out a dress that Jim Bob approved of, and he wanted it to be more & more modest, no matter how many layers at the neck or jacket sleeves they added! Anything odd or unusual referred to on this blog is always something the Duggars already did or said themselves!

I hope that other young women planning for their wedding know that having a custom dress made in just a few weeks is not the norm. It typically takes months to order the dress. Every young woman I know who has recently married ordered their dresses at least 8 months before the actual wedding. The dress took 6 months to arrive and then two months for alterations. The aim was to have the dress ready two to three weeks before the actual wedding.

I got the feeling that Renee worked on those dresses well in advance. Maybe when she got done making one Duggar bride's dress, she started on the next ones, before any wedding date was set? I also got the feeling that she dropped everything to get ready for the filming, had a lot of help, and used it as an opportunity to promote her dresses, whether they were what Joy wanted or not.

I enjoyed the episode for the most part, but noticed - Joy didnt really seem to be gung-ho on finding a dress! Also, why do these girls all calk their fiancee their "best friend"? They truly don't know each other well, and they've yet to even have a private conversation to even tell secrets like real best friends actually do!

Huh. I considered my fiance to be my best friend, and no, I didn't know him as well as I know him now after 16 years of marriage. They have months of observing, months of talking, months of courtship, months of engagement to get to know each other well.

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